Classification Essay

Types of Neighbors

 

             Anyone who’s ever had a house knows there are many types of neighbors. They are classified basically for the way they behave, how they treat you from day one in the neighborhood. There are the friendly neighbors, which are now an almost extinct species. Also, there are the anti-social neighbors, which no one really bothers to like next to.  And finally, there are the annoying neighbors, like one of my neighbors, Doña Cristina.

 

                The first kind of neighbors, the friendly ones, is the kind of neighbor everyone wants to have when owning a house. For example, I used to have an old couple as neighbors a few years ago and they were the best you could have. When I got home they would greet me with a smile, and they were always willing to help. Of course, my mom and I returned the favor when they needed help. Everyone loved having them around because they were always so jolly and friendly. Sadly, nothing lasts forever.

 

                After they moved, the anti-social neighbors came to live in their house. Those are the kind of neighbors who see you come to the house and they still won’t give you a
“Good day/afternoon/night” even if you say it first. They’re not really that bad, because we hardly ever see or hear them. We do miss the old neighbors with their jolly attitude, but these ones are not so bad. They’re not so friendly, but at least they’re not like Doña Cristina, the neighbor who lives behind us.

 

                My mom and I categorize her like an annoying neighbor. That’s because she’s always in the look-out for information. She won’t talk to you unless she wants to get some information out of you, yours or a neighbor’s. She’s always looking at what my mom and I do in the backyard and she’s always talking about what she would do (but her backyard looks like a junkyard). She always has either the T.V. or the radio on (in high volume). But, we’ll just have to live with that.

 

                Every neighbor has three types of neighbors: friendly, anti-social and the annoying neighbor. They’re always easy to tag when you see them. But the real question is… Which one are you? Friendly? Anti-social? Annoying? I consider myself and anti-social neighbor because I’m never at home and barely get to know them.